Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-02-03
REDUCING THE EXPENSES.

I 0SCIlnaC1S aDDTODT1atiO0S
1896, 600 600 and that the total Of the gross re-
| ceipts will be $4lO, 900, 900.
REDUCING THE EXPENSES.
Cutting Down Salaries and Looping
| off Employees.
SOME OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE LEGISLATIVE AP-
| PRECIPITATION BILL, NOW READY TO REPORT 10 THE
| HOUSE
The legislative bill has been completed by the
| House appropriations committee and was re-
ported to the House to-day. The total OF the bill
is $50, ,2S6, ,910.s7, less than the current law by
s4lS. $3.50 There is a reduction OF ninety-six
| salaries in the bill.
CAPITOL EMPLOYEES
The changes in the rate OF compensation OF and
the grade or number Of officers or employees OF the
government are as follows:
All provisions for clerks to Senators are omitted
AS to the House, assistant to the clerk to pre-
pare the general index to the journal at s. OO0;
clerk to the speaker at 81 900, and an assistant
cierk a 10 the cOmmiltee on war claims, are pro.
the tally clerk from 5000 to 900, and news
paper clerk from s. 900 to 81, 400. The salary OF
the clerk to the speakers table is increased from
$1,000 to 81 800. Provision is made for an assist
ant to the file clerk at salary OF $500. The ses-
sion employees are provided for upon the basis OF
In the Government Printing ONCE, two clerks OF
class are given in lieu OF two OF class f. and one
reduction OF 500 in salaries
IN THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
the salary OF the private secretary to the Secretary
increased from s. 900 to 81 600 and one clerk class
is transferred to the Secretarys Office from the
internal revenue bureau. One laborer at $3.50 is
substituted for one at $500 under the chief clerk.
An $40 clerk in the appointment division is
omitted. One clerk OF class is given In lieu OF
Of class in public moneys division. TWO copytsts
at $S4O are given in lieu OF 81 2C0 clerk and
one at 500 in the division OF loans and currency.
One clerk OF class is given In lieu OF OF class
in the stationery division. The salary OF the
chief OF the division OF captured property, claims
and land Is reduced from s. 500 to S2,25O and two
g, 900 clerks are omitted. In the miscellaneous
at 500 each are omitted. This makes a total re-
na Saving nRe o T. the n
architects office one clerk Of class and one or
class ARE are ommitse% ,9 In the rs. con-
given in lieu OF $500 clerk. In
The second controllers Office an additional
Chief % Of division at salary Of 1o9 Is provided
class two OF class and one 800 clerk are omit
ted. The salary OF the commissioner Of customs
auditors Office an increase fs made OF two clerks
OF class and OF two charwOmen at $3.50 each,
and the clerks OF class are reduced by four. In
the sixth auditors Office an additional aSSOrter OF
money orders at S720 and one laborer at $500 are
given. In the treasurer's oflce two additional
pressmen at 81 200 each, three separators and 3
feeders, at $500 each, are given In the internal
revenue bureau, one chemist and one microscopist.
at $500 each, are provided for. The clerks OF
transferred to Secretarys Office. Bureau OF navi-
cation, $500 additional Is given to the acting
clerk class is omitted in the secret service divi
sion, and the attendants salary is increased to
$72O. The salary of the examiner in the mint bu-
cOmputor, from 5000 to 81, 400. The salaries OF
the assistant treaSurers are changed as follows:
At Baltimore, Cincinnati, st. Louis ard San Fran
4 - n eac at
cago and Philadelphia, increased from 81, 500 to
$1,000.
IN THE QuARfERNAsTER GENERALS OFFICE
the claims division is consolidated with the regu-
ance with the wishes Of the quartermaster gen.
eral making reduction of thirteen persons and
81, 900 In aggregate salaries.
IN THE HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE
OF the Navy department reduction is made OF
one office attendant at 1920. In bureau OF steam
engineering, one clerk of class is given in lieu OF
one Of class 2.
IN THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
two public land inspectors at s, 500 each are
omitted. Two additional g., 600 law clerks in the
assistant attorney generals Office are provided for.
The salary OF the commissioner of the general land
office is increased from s. 600 to q 500; the assist
ant commissioners from $1,000 to 81 :250 and the
chief clerk from s2 $50 70 s., 400. Two clerks at
salary is increased from 8 600 to s4.5OO Two
qualified surgeons at 81 600 each are omitted in
the pension Office and the number OF medical
examiners at 81 500 each, Is increased from Ii to
20. The salary OF the assistant commissioner OF
patents is increased from $4,000 to $3.50: two
each, and three copyists at 500 each are omitted
in the patent office. The number OF surveyors
general are reduced from Is to II, and the pro-
after July 1s 1885, and the duties of the surveyor
generals ONCE PERFORMED by the land ONCE.
m THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT
The salary Of the First Assistant Postmaster
General is increased from $4,000 to s45O0 and
that OF the superintendent OF free delivery from
&C. 500 to g 600. Reductions are made as follows:
One clerk class two: two class /, six at 81 600
each. The salary Of the superintendent of foreign
ing clerk is increased from S. 100 to 81 $50. De-
partment OF Justice: One assistant Attorney Gen.
eral in Court Of Claims at $22 600 is provided.
MISCELLANEOUS.
In the solicitor OF the Treasurys oflce one clerk
OF class four. and two Of class oneare omitted and
two additional clerks OF class two are provided for
one additional Judge OF 2: $; courts at 1000 and
in court Of Claims is omitted.
The bill provides, with reference to the appro-
sioners. that the money sball not he ayaiiahie
until any rules OF the commission now in force
which exclude from its examination applicants
The removal OF the bureau Of statistics once OF
marine hospita! service and portion Of the second
Of 1@s Mnasr 6SS
collectors and deputies is increased s35 600, and
the amount for special examiners OF the pension
once (0utside OF the city Is reduced $4,000
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Relief OF Ereedman's bank Depositor,.
WHAT CONTROLLERS TRENHOLM SAYS or THE PENDING
BILL m CONGRESS.
A STAR reporter asked Controller Trenholm to
day II he thought there was danger that the
measure for the relief OF Freedmans bank deposi.
tors would benent spectators instead OF the genu-
Inc poor @ pcs 5 ns replied that
tfon or assistance, and that he had I'm view the
relief OF the genuine depoeitors. He framed the
bill with particular care, 90 as to prevent anyone
not SO entitled from reaptng the Dement'S OF the
measure. The administration OF the bin, IL it be-
comes law. he thought win AFFORD additional Sc.
curities against any imposition by speculatora
It would be unwlSe at present to make any definite
restrictions as TO who shall and who shall not be
allowed relief but the bin, BY its wording requires
that the depOtors shall be entitled to the benent
and they shall receive it II possible: While the
pass book, in each instance, viii be prima facte
evidence Of q valid claim postmasters in the va
rious towns In which the dcpositors reside or re.
stded win act as special inspectors and win be
able 70 assist IN the d1stributon Of the money to
the bank was declared, the controller said about
thirty thousand poor and ignorant c0lored people,
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